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Subscribe nowEU sanctions data: addressing the publication delays
The European Council and Commission struggle to publish structured and easily accessible sanctions data in a timely manner. We're calling for this practice to be updated in order to make the restrictive measures more effective.
· EU · SanctionsA Major Update to our On-Premise API Service
Yente 4.0 brings fast, incremental database updates and compatibility with AWS OpenSearch, making sanctions and PEP screening more efficient and easy-to-deploy.
· API · yente · DeltasLists inside of lists: mapping the world of sanctions programs
What do the United States’ Burma-Related sanctions, Chinese Military Companies Sanctions, the Sectoral Sanctions Identifiers and the Foreign Sanctions Evaders have in common?
· Metadata · Sanctions · ProgramsWe’re now ISO 27001 certified!
After several months of learning and preparation, OpenSanctions has passed its first independent audit to ensure our organisation’s adherence to the ISO 27001 standard for information security.
· Compliance · Security · ISO27001GraphAware webinar: the challenge of investigating complex ownership structures
How to disentangle complex ownership structures with the help of data and knowledge graphs
· BeneficialOwnership · Graph · AnalyticsSee all of our updates...
Collections are data distributions provided by OpenSanctions that combine entities from many sources based on a topic. Learn more...
Consolidated list of sanctioned entities designated by different countries and international organisations. This can include military, trade and travel restrictions.
This distribution includes the data collected by OpenSanctions that meets quality standards and would be useful in a screening system or for investigative use.
Special interest collections contain selections of the data that are more specialised than the default collections.
Name | Updates | Entities | ||
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Debarred Companies and Individuals | daily | 229,262 | ||
Know-Your-Business (KYB) Datasets | monthly | 85,927,047 | ||
Open Ownership Datasets | weekly | 34,366,195 | ||
Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) | daily | 707,887 | ||
Regulatory Watchlists | daily | 182,998 | ||
Sanctioned Securities | daily | 308,941 | ||
Warrants and Criminal Entities | daily | 225,938 |